Synopsis and Continuity of Hail the Woman
1921. Produced by Thomas H. Ince, Directed by John Griffith Wray, and Distributed by Associated Producers, Inc. Treatment of the play about Oliver Beresford, who is a stern, Puritanical, and uncompromisingly rigid father. When shameful stories about his daughter Judith surface, rather than determine whether the stories are true, he bans her from his house. Her brother David, a pusillanimous reprobate, has secretly married and fathered, then abandoned, a child. Judith takes care of the child and finds a way to restore her family through the love for the babe.